what's MX?

[hoihtah]

hi, when talking about domain names...
what's MX?

any lead to this would greatly appreciated.

 

[pyonir]

mexico

 

[gopunk]

i don't have a very thorough understanding of it, but it has something to do with mail... i think you specify the mail servers with it.

 

[hoihtah]

no... not .mx

i'm talking about MX as to DNS.

i understand what dns' are... but... what' the heck is mx?

 

[GooberPHX420]

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Mexico has computers? :Q

 

[hoihtah]

thanx go punk...

is there any webpage that might explain this a bit further?

i'd really like to know...

thanx again.

 

[hoihtah]

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i was just down in nicaragua this past summer...
and they had computers.

donno about mexico though.

 

[Viper GTS]

MX Records
More info

Viper GTS

 

[hoihtah]

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thanx viper.
i should've gone straight to you to ask this in the first place.

 

[pyonir]

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haha...

 

[bastula]

Mail exchanger (record) i think.

It sets up the mail exchange for when you use your domain for email purposes. Like which mail server receives email for your domain. For example for my domain bastula.org - my mail exchange record is set to mail.bastula.org (my server which handles all my email).

 

[Platypus]

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Another guilty first-worlder indeed. :disgust: